FinalWriter bounty?

[Senex]

Since on the one hand there is not much interest at MorphZone and on the other hand it seems Woody is even ten years after my previous contact (back then trying to evaluate if Genesi could acquire the sources) still looking for a fortune, I'd just like to mention here that he's still reachable an willing to sell the source in case someone would e.g. like to initiate a cross-platform bounty project for it.

Everything else can be found at the link above. Thus if in the Amiga, OS4 and AROS communities there would be more interest in buying the FinalWriter source code and anyone would seriously intend to start a bounty project, I'd happily send him a PM with the e-mail address.

[giZmo350]

Since on the one hand there is not much interest at MorphZone and on the other hand it seems Woody is even ten years after my previous contact (back then trying to evaluate if Genesi could acquire the sources) still looking for a fortune, I'd just like to mention here that he's still reachable an willing to sell the source in case someone would e.g. like to initiate a cross-platform bounty project for it.

Everything else can be found at the link above. Thus if in the Amiga, OS4 and AROS communities there would be more interest in buying the FinalWriter source code and anyone would seriously intend to start a bounty project, I'd happily send him a PM with the e-mail address.

NICE! Thanks for that! I would gladly contribute to a bounty or even an outright buy! I love FinalWriter!

[Matt_H]

I'd contribute to a Final Writer bounty. I wonder if Woody would consider a smaller sum for a freeware (no source code) release?

[mpiva]

ABSOLUTELY!!! Interestingly, FinalWriter is probably the program I use most on my Amigas. I do almost all my writing in FinalWriter because, for some reason, I feel more inspired while working on an Amiga. I'd be tempted to drop a small fortune into a FinalWriter bounty.

[Heinz]

Since on the one hand there is not much interest at MorphZone and on the other hand it seems Woody is even ten years after my previous contact (back then trying to evaluate if Genesi could acquire the sources) still looking for a fortune, I'd just like to mention here that he's still reachable an willing to sell the source in case someone would e.g. like to initiate a cross-platform bounty project for it.

Everything else can be found at the link above. Thus if in the Amiga, OS4 and AROS communities there would be more interest in buying the FinalWriter source code and anyone would seriously intend to start a bounty project, I'd happily send him a PM with the e-mail address.

Hi. The easiest way to know how much interest is there, is to ask the author the amount of money he wants for the Source and the simply start the Bounty at http://www.power2people.org/contact.

You would need to ask the author if the sources are all C/C++ because anything else wont work for a cross platform project.

[amigadave]

I am afraid Woody is expecting too much for the Source Code for Final Writer.  Maybe he does not realize how much the Amiga community has decreased over the last 10 years.

I supported Woody fully when Softwood was still supporting the Amiga with new releases, as I purchased Final Copy, Final Copy II, and every version of Final Writer from beginning to end, including the Windows version of Final Writer, plus I also purchased Final Data and Final Calc and the updates for them as well.  I just don't think the Source Code for Final Writer is worth that much money any more and I wish he would let it go for less money than he apparently is asking for it still.  As Senex stated over on the MZ.org thread, Woody does not even own all of Final Writer Sources, because parts of it were licensed, such as the Speller, and maybe the Grammar portions of it.

I really like Final Writer, but I think if we are all going to put money into a bounty for a good word processor, we should concentrate on a more modern word processor program that will support more import and export formats and allow us to interact with documents from main stream word processing and DTP programs on all platforms.  Like Open Office did and what ever the correct spelling is for it's successor (Libre Office???)

[A1260]

with the out of date old amiga bounty system, things either take years or never get done.

put up a kickstarter have it run for four weeks ask for the money you need... when you got the money, finish the project to the set deadline in the kickstarter...  

if you don't get the money for the kickstarter you need, then you know there is not enough interest in this project, and its not meant to be.


heres link to kickstarter...
http://www.kickstarter.com/

[Duce]

I'd honestly like to see a full OpenOffice port, but I'd be happy to contribute to a bounty for FW if the source would be released.

Simply making the program freeware doesn't do much for me without the source.

[Jose]

IIRC FinalWriter doesn't have undo function, which kind of sucks..

[Jose]

Er, I mean undo function multiple undo history...

[mpiva]

I am afraid Woody is expecting too much for the Source Code for Final Writer.  Maybe he does not realize how much the Amiga community has decreased over the last 10 years.

How much is he asking for? More or less than GPSoft is asking for the DirectoryOpus Magellan sources?

[runequester]

Indeed, the actual amount would be nice. If it's reasonable, and it'd be possible to shine up FW to handle .odt and .doc (it already does RTF) and port it across the amiga ecosystem, it'd be cool.

If it's a giant pile of money, why bother? There's other options out there.

[cha05e90]

I would donate for a Wordworth bounty... :-)

[kedawa]

If he thinks it's so damned valuable, why hasn't he released a modern version himself?

[Megamig]

I would pay for the source for

InterWord (by far the best text word processor for the Amiga IMHO)
KindWords 3

I always felt that Wordsworth and FinalWriter were too bloated (slow) on standard Amigas.